To safeguard the rights and interests of entities participating in asset auction activities, the National Assembly enacted the Asset Auction Law 2016. This also serves as the basis for state management of asset auctions.
Law No. 01/2016/QH14 stipulates the principles, procedures, and formalities for asset auctions.
1. Overview of the Asset Auction Law.
2. Key Points of the Asset Auction Law.
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1. Overview of the Asset Auction Law
- The latest effective Asset Auction Law is Law No. 01/2016/QH14, also known as the 2016 Asset Auction Law.
- The law comes into effect from July 01, 2017, except for the provisions in Clause 4 of Article 80 which come into effect from January 01, 2017.
- The Asset Auction Law consists of 8 chapters with 81 Articles as follows:
+ Chapter I: General provisions (from Article 1 to Article 9)
+ Chapter II: Auctioneers, asset auction organizations (from Article 10 to Article 32)
+ Chapter III: General auction procedures (from Article 33 to Article 54)
+ Chapter IV: Auction of assets mandated by law to be sold through auctions (from Article 55 to Article 65)
Section 1 on general provisions
Section 2 on Asset Auction Council
Section 3 on auctioning bad debts and collateral assets of bad debts
+ Chapter V: Auction service fees, asset auction costs (from Article 66 to Article 68)
+ Chapter VI: Handling violations, cancellation of asset auction results, compensation for damages
+ Chapter VII: State management of asset auctions (from Article 77 to Article 79)
+ Chapter VIII: Enforcement provisions (Article 80 and Article 81)
Observing, fundamentally, the law provides regulations on procedures for conducting asset auctions along with principles, procedures; regulations on auctioneers and asset auction organizations; auction service fees, etc.
Additionally, there are some documents guiding the implementation of this law such as the Circular guiding the Asset Auction Law, Decree No. 62/2017/NĐ-CP guiding the Asset Auction Law
Asset Auction Law: content and the necessity of enacting the law
2. Key Points of the Asset Auction Law
- Scope of regulation: assets to be sold through asset auctions; assets chosen for auction by organizations, individuals voluntarily.
- Principles of asset auction: transparency, independence, integrity, honesty, objectivity, protecting the rights and interests of participants. Moreover, the Asset Auction Law also clearly delineates the legal responsibilities of auctioneers, asset auction organizations, auction participants, and prohibited behaviors.
- Regarding auctioneers: conditions to become an auctioneer:
+ Attend asset auctioneer vocational training course: 06 months
+ Apprentice: 06 months + pass the apprentice auctioneer profession test
=> Enhance auctioneer standards, narrowing down the exempted from auctioneer vocational training (lawyers, notaries, inheritance agents, asset managers, arbitrators with over 02 years of professional experience will be exempted from asset auctioneer vocational training)
- Regarding asset auction organizations, including: (1) Asset Auction Service Center, (2) asset auction enterprises must register their activities with the Department of Justice.
- Regarding the procedures for asset auction:
+ Listing asset auction information: clear, transparent, public, widespread. Accordingly, the law has shortened the time for listing real estate auction notices to 15 days before the auction date instead of the previous 30 days.
+ The time for listing real estate auction notices remains unchanged at 07 days before the auction.
+ Forms of auction include direct voting, indirect voting, and additional online auction forms.
+ Specific regulations on 05 cases of canceling auction results
- Regarding auction service fees, asset auction costs: determined according to the market service price mechanism agreed upon by the parties and must still comply with the framework set by the Ministry of Finance.
- Furthermore, the Asset Auction Law also clearly affirms the state management responsibility for asset auctions: ministries, agencies under the government coordinate with the Ministry of Justice in state management of asset auctions.
Thus, the Asset Auction Law has been shared by Mytour in this article. From that, recognizing the importance, the necessity of issuing regulations, institutions in the field of asset auctions. Besides, the Budget Law also has a close relationship in asset management, inviting readers to refer for more information.
